Bolt boss defends sacking entire HR team, claiming staff ‘invented problems that didn’t exist’
The chief executive of US fintech Bolt has mounted a robust defence of his decision to sack the company’s entire human resources department, telling a...
SpaceX lifts the veil on its finances as Musk readies the biggest flotation in stock market history
For more than two decades, SpaceX has been Silicon Valley’s most closely guarded balance sheet, a privately held empire of reusable rockets and orbiting broadband...
Britain seals landmark Gulf trade deal in G7 first, promising £3.7bn lift for UK exporters
After more than five years of painstaking negotiation across six capitals, Britain has finally landed its long-awaited free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council,...
OpenAIi lines up confidential IPO filing as race for AI listings accelerates
OpenAI, the San Francisco company behind ChatGPT, is preparing to file confidentially for an initial public offering within weeks, in what would rank as one...
AI-powered nimbyism is jamming Britain’s planning system putting 1.5 million new homes at risk
Cheap chatbots are helping residents fire off forensic objections in minutes, piling pressure on already-stretched council planners and threatening the government’s flagship housebuilding pledge. A...
Defying Western pressure: Russia and China deepen economic partnership
Moscow and Beijing have expanded cooperation across trade, energy, finance, and infrastructure Russia and China have built an expansive economic partnership while deepening coordination within...